Month: May 2021
Aussie suburbs that could eventually upgrade to NBN 1000 speed tier announced NBN
NBN Co has today announced that over a million Australian homes will be getting upgrades by 2023 that will allow them to sign up for the ultrafast NBN speed tiers, offering up to 1Gbps download speed in the case of NBN 1000. This means that eligible premises will be able…
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Now streaming: best new TV shows & movies this week in Australia (May 3-9) Jupiter's Legacy
With so many shows and movies to choose from on Australia’s major streaming services, it can often be difficult to find the best new stuff to entertain yourself with each week. In an effort to make things easier, we’ve hand-picked the best new shows and movies of the week to…
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Bill And Melinda Gates Are Getting Divorced
Bill and Melinda Gates, among the world’s wealthiest couples and most prominent philanthropists, are getting divorced. In a tweet posted Monday by the Microsoft cofounder, the couple said they will end their marriage of 27 years “after a great deal of thought and a lot of work.” They added that…
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Apple antitrust trial kicks off with Tim Sweeney’s metaverse dreams
Epic Games launched its courtroom war against Apple in an extremely on-brand way: with CEO Tim Sweeney describing the metaverse from Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash. It’s “a real-time, computer-powered 3D entertainment and social medium in which real people would go into a 3D simulation together and have experiences of…
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Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
I. At 8AM PT on Friday, a bleary-eyed Basecamp CEO Jason Fried gathered his remote workforce together on Zoom to apologize. Four days earlier, he had thrown the company into turmoil by announcing that “societal and political discussions” would no longer be allowed on the company’s internal chat forums. In…
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Uber and Arrival partner to create an EV for ride-hail drivers
Arrival, the electric vehicle manufacturer that’s attempting to do away with the assembly line in favor of highly automated microfactories, is partnering with Uber to create an EV for ride-hail drivers. Arrival expects to reveal the final vehicle design before the end of the year and to begin production in…
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